Who’s doing our dirty work?
Eyal Press looks inside the daily lives of prison workers, drone warriors, and meatpackers.
incarceration
Why was the apostle Paul in prison so often?
Perhaps for the same reasons people are today.
We are disguising our collective wounds instead of treating them.
This was Deputy Kiosha’s house, and I was in it.
Just because something is legal doesn’t make it morally right.
"It’s easy to think of the border as some remote, far-off place, but the truth is that there are detention centers in nearly every state."
Fiction that makes prisons visible
How three novelists depict the reality of incarceration
Our family reunion in Argentina looked like something straight out of one of Jesus’ parables.
Inventing a voice for Louis Till
John Edgar Wideman counters the official record of Emmett Till’s father with a more empathetic version.
When mercy and justice meet
As we make laws and try to adjudicate justice, we often lose sight of the human faces affected.
Tennessee: poster child for a broken system
A justice system oriented mainly toward punishing offenders can have tragic consequences.
Caught, by Marie Gottschalk
Marie Gottschalk describes an American penal system that has all but abandoned any real attempt to rehabilitate its inmates.
Free on the inside
Joshua Dubler shows up at a maximum-security prison as a budding ethnographer. He becomes a man captured by friendships.
The hunger strike among California prison inmates is a month old today. The state's corrections department maintains that the strike is a ploy to free up gangs to do business behind bars. But the longer this thing goes, the more ridiculous that sounds.